Enlighten Me

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: With Every Minute, Seize The Chance To Turn It Around

The new administration is currently seeking to eliminate Title X family planning funding, as well as add Teresa Manning to the Department of Health and Human Services where she will oversee the department assigned to women’s health and family planning for low income and uninsured women.

On the program to discuss this, Jessica Mason Pieklo, Vice President, Law and the Courts for Rewire. If you haven’t been keeping up to date on this, her recent piece on the Trump administration and birth control will catch you up.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA

Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM|Show Title: The Power of the People

US District Court judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos ruled in Texas recently that SB 14, the voter ID Bill passed in 2011 was passed with the intent to discriminate against minority voters. This is something civil rights leaders, voting rights advocates and legal scholars have been fighting against for years. It begs the question, would this same level of advocacy be applied to other cases like this across the country.

I’m not a lawyer, but good thing I know a few good ones.  On the program today, Ezra Rosenberg, Co-Director of the Voting Rights project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law where he oversees all voting rights litigation will explain what this means for Texas and other voter ID laws that have popped up over the years.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA

Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM|Show Title: The Complexity of Women

On the program, Zoe Carpenter of The Nation has been looking into African American maternal birth rates.  If we claim to care about black babies, let’s care about what has happened to them from the start.

Also, how did certain topics become single issue deal breakers in political discourse? And where did women of color, specifically African American women stand as they straddled the fence of wanting civil and equal rights while at the same time promoting and protecting their strong pro-family stance?

Marjorie Spruill, author of Divided We Stand delves into what some called “Four Days That Changed The World”, a look into the generational effects of the 1977 International Women’s Year Conference.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA

Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Inspire. Empower. Stand Up.

As a young teen, I always wondered what my mother did at the conferences she attended in Washington, DC. One year, she brought back a t-shirt with the AAUW logo. On it, was a phrase that I have seen throughout the years. “When women succeed, America succeeds.” So i’m happy to come full circle with Abigail Lewis, Vice President of Leadership Program and Campus Initiatives at AAUW to talk about #StandUpToSexism, the campaign highlighting how everyday sexism affects women in leadership.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA

Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Fortitude

On the program, Dr. E. Faye Williams, President & CEO of the National Congress of Black Women talks about the history of the organization as well as her role in protecting the rights of black women.

Also, the Center for American Progress released their report, The Pillars of Equity: A Vision for Economic Security and Reproductive Justice. I’ll have Heidi Williamson, Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for American Progress on the program to shed some light on how to ensure equality in regards to health and economics for women.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA

Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Binders Full Of Women

On the program, Rewire Federal policy reporter Christine Grimaldi talks about #ADayWithoutAWoman as well as her piece regarding the American Health Care Act, the proposal from House Republicans regarding health care in America. Opponents argue it has changed a lot of provisions that helped family planning, women’s health and access to affordable care.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA

Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Because of Them, We Can

Black women’s contributions to this society have been enormous, far ranging and all encompassing. On today’s program Dr. Tracee Jamison-Hooks, a research Electrical Engineer for the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Program. She was also the first African American to receive a PhD in Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State A&T University. I’ll talk to her about the challenges of the past and future for african american women in STEM.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA

Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Fight The Power

On the program, civil rights activist Kevin Alexander Gray will talk about the history of the civil rights struggle, as well as his views on the administrations outreach toward African-Americans during black history month. Cinematographer Hans Charles will also join the program to talk about his latest film, The 13th.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA

Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7| Show Title: Black Love, Black Power

Stefanie Brown James and Quentin James are committed to engaging the African American electorate to empower themselves. Their decades of service in community engagement and progressive politics led them to found The Collective PAC, and organization dedicated to building Black political power by recruiting, training, funding and electing progressive black candidates on the local, state and federal level.

Join me as I talk to them about their story as well as what they see in the future for The Collective.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA

Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Past is Prologue

“How can a community that evolved for more than 100 years only carry on in the memories of a few surviving members?”

On the program today, Jason Green, the co-producer of The Quince Orchard Project will answer these questions and more. As a fifth generation descendant of the area, I’m sure he can provide some much needed context.

It’s Black History Month on Enlighten Me. Trust me, this is the escape you need.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA

Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr